Adam Pasick

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President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform has survived a major challenge before the US Supreme Court. Six of the nine justices, including chief justice John Roberts, ruled that an ambiguous wording in the law was not sufficient to revoke the plan’s government subsidies that have allowed some 6 million poor and middle-class Americans to buy more affordable health insurance.

Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev broke his long silence at a sentencing hearing today, where he will officially be given the death penalty.

Patients buying medical marijuana to eat and drink may not know quite what they’re getting, according to new research in the Journal of the American Medical Asssociation (paywall) that compared their purported levels of THC with lab tests that determined actual THC levels. THC and another compound called cannabidiol (CBD) are believed to cause most of marijuana’s medicinal effects, and THC provides most of the “psychoactive” effects, which make you feel stoned.

Google is investing heavily in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which teaches powerful computers how to perform a variety of complicated tasks. One of those is known as “natural language processing,” the ability to comprehend spoken or written language.

Rupert Murdoch is initiating his long-awaited succession plan, stepping down as chief executive of 21st Century Fox, according to CNBC’s David Faber. He will be replaced by his younger son, James.  The 84-year-old media mogul will remain as co-executive chairman of both Fox and its sister company, News Corp.

Joseph “Sepp” Blatter, known as the most powerful man in sports before a US-led corruption investigation cast a dark shadow on the global football organizing body, said today (June 2) that he will resign as FIFA’s president.

Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind of the illicit online marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison today for narcotics trafficking and other charges.

The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to provide temporarily shelter to some 7,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who are stranded at sea, after several weeks of hemming and hawing by a group of southeast Asian governments. Malaysia and Indonesia, along with their neighbor Thailand, had recently been turning the migrant boats away from their territory, drawing condemnation from human rights groups, the US government, and Pope Francis.

The plight of thousands of migrants stranded at sea is growing worse by the day, and none of the southeast Asian countries caught up in the crisis seem willing to help. An estimated 6,000 people—mostly from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, along with some economic migrants from Bangladesh—are trapped on boats adrift in the Andaman Sea and Straits of Malacca, abandoned by the crew with very little fuel, food, or water.

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The Japanese government has big plans for its high-tech toilet industry. Toilets from companies like industry leader Toto—which are so ubiquitous that they are used to track national prosperity—will get a multifaceted promotional boost starting this year, according to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun.

At least 2,000 refugees fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh, including hundreds of women and children, have been rescued off the coast of Indonesia over the past 24 hours, after smugglers abandoned them at sea without food or water.

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Tesla isn’t quite invading the Motor City, but it’s getting closer: The company confirmed to Quartz that it has acquired Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Riviera Tool, which makes complex machinery that is already being used in Tesla factories.

Dave Goldberg, a beloved Silicon Valley executive and the husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, suffered a fatal accident on vacation in Mexico last weekend. According to a spokesman for the local prosecutor’s office, the 47-year-old Goldberg “fell off the treadmill and cracked his head open” while exercising, and died of head trauma and blood loss.

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What to watch for today

Tesla has started selling batteries that don’t have an expensive car attached. And CEO Elon Musk—the billionaire entrepreneur often compared to a superhero or a Bond villain—described a scenario in which they could potentially power much of the world.

What to watch for today

New York Times technology writer Farhad Manjoo’s latest column is all about Japanese toilets—specifically, the high-tech electronic bidet seats that can, as he describes it, “spray and buff your nethers with a soothing shower of cleansing H2O.”

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Angry residents of Baltimore clashed violently with police and there were several outbreaks of looting and arson, following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died of a spinal cord injury while in police custody. The city declared a curfew and Maryland’s governor mobilized the National Guard.

Kerbal Space Program, an intricately detailed computer simulator game that lets you build rockets and manage your own space program, is preparing for lift-off. After several years of development in ”early access mode”—during which it became a favorite of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk—KSP is launching version 1.0 today.